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Mary Turck, Editor
Mary Turck (editor@tcdailyplanet.net) is the editor of the TC Daily Planet, a title that encompasses tasks ranging from reporting on legislative hearings to bringing snacks for citizen journalist and community media partner meetings.
Mary is the former editor of the award-winning Connection to the Americas and AMERICAS.ORG. She is also a recovering attorney and the author of many books for young people (and a few for adults), mostly focusing on historical and social issues. Her career in journalism began when she was in high school, writing a weekly column for the Litchfield Independent Review. The column began with a multi-part investigative journalism series on the county school system, which she still considers among her best work.
Mary enjoys teaching and has taught various subjects in venues ranging from elementary schools to colleges to prisons. She currently teaches workshops on citizen journalism and immigration.
Mary lives in St. Paul with her husband, Ron Salzberger, their two daughters and two dogs.
In addition to articles listed below, see Mary’s blog, Keeping the Faith.
Happy birthday to us!
The Daily Planet turned two years old on May 1, marking two years of constant growth and change. Our front page changes daily, featuring an average of eight to ten stories from community media partners and citizen journalists. New media tools range from Google maps to Twitter, offering increasing interactivity for our growing community of readers, writers and viewers. MORE »
Media reform convention coming to town
The National Conference on Media Reform is coming to Minneapolis June 6-8, with more than two thousand participants expected. The conference, sponsored by Free Press, focuses on diversity and democracy in media. Key issues include net neutrality, media consolidation, the future of the internet and the quality of journalism.
[Full disclosure: the Twin Cities Media Alliance, parent organization of the TC Daily Planet, is a participant in the conference.] MORE »
Robyne Robinson, communication and subversion
“You can make inroads in the machine,” Robyne Robinson says. Though she loves her job as Fox 9 News co-anchor, she has no illusions about the corporate news game. The news media have been “hijacked,” and news departments are “financial drains” on broadcast networks, tolerated because “federal law requires some sort of public communication.” MORE »
Theater note: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
“Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” MORE »
A community conversation on race
“Race is an issue that … this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.… MORE »
